Tag Archives: travel

3 Chord Thursday Destinations & How to Get There

On Thursday 21st July 2022, we invite you to share songs from this picture and ignite your curiosity and creativity to suggest other related songs about getting to a particular place. To this, we should add destination: HOME. How to … Continue reading

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Simple Gifts for Thanksgiving

On the eve before my travel, I arranged Simple Gifts for ukulele and piano. Continue reading

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3 Chord Thurs: Travel

Join us on Thursday 22nd July 2021 for a 3 Chord Thursday thematic song session of songs about travel or traveling. Some of these may overlap with other themes such as vacation, to the beach, or on the water. The theme of … Continue reading

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Three Chord Thursday: locations

Songs about location for a virtual song session in Zoom on Thursday July 2, 2020 free for anyone anywhere in the world to participate as performer or muted participant Continue reading

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Songs in the Time of Corona: one-hour on Fridays

We share songs inspired by the coronavirus pandemic, from existing songs about staying at home to new songs about the lock down, from parodies to 20-second handwash song. These are FREE one-hour song sessions in ZOOM. Be sure to register … Continue reading

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Visiting Vis, Croatia – the Mamma Mia effect

Barely two weeks after watching “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” – the sequel to “Mamma Mia!” I am now on the island where it was filmed, not quite a year ago in September 2017, not Greece but Croatia. The … Continue reading

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All things Dutch and wonderful

When I first visited a local supermarket in the Netherlands, I complained that the only soy sauce was the wrong kind. The bottle was too small, and the soya sauce was Indonesian. I honestly thought I would starve.

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Moving out, moving over, and moving on

During the pressure-cooker months of May and June,  I often wanted to wave a magic wand and make everything disappear. My tendency to collect, accept what others give me, organize, make good, and keep meant that I didn’t like throwing … Continue reading

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A rolling stone gathers no moss but eventually will meet others

I can count the number of friends who visited me during  my five-and-a-half years on Maui. The first to visit was a couple who flew from California and stayed for a long weekend in my first apartment while attending a … Continue reading

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Planning travel: Maui to Boston, Utrecht to London

Nearly six years after flying to Maui and getting a job there, I booked a one-way ticket to Boston and started planning my exit from paradise.

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